Position Summary

This position is an Applications Engineer and will provide direct sales and engineering support to the customer, distributor and field sales personnel on technical aspects of pneumatic actuators.  The successful candidate will interact with manufacturing, engineering, accounting and customer service personnel as customers.  

• Collaborating in a team environment develops assigned portions of design by analyzing specifications and performance requirements. Performs routine design and supports development of assigned products (e.g. new mechanical or electromechanical components, subsystems, and systems) by applying basic engineering principles and established analytical tools.
• Investigates product development factors such as ease of manufacture, availability of materials and equipment, interchangeability, strength-weight efficiency, contractual specification requirements, cost-defining recommendations, and change proposals.
• Completes defined technical tasks (e.g. modify product functional specifications, detailed drawings and schematics; define data elements and structure; analyze and interpret test reports). Develops reports and documentation in response to technical information requests.
• Conducts routine analyses and/or tests to evaluate product designs, methods, materials or processes and completes required technical documentation by applying engineering principles and company standards, and generating reports, procedures, or change proposals as required.
• Provides technical information for review with product engineering and design review teams. Consistently applies established engineering practices, standards, and documentation methods. Contributes to supporting documentation for procedures and technical reports.
• Adopts lean product development and standard engineering development and techniques.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing technical publications, and/or participating in professional associations.
• Work assignments may include cross-functional or project team responsibilities. Contributes and supports other teams or individuals as needed. 
• Routinely communicate with customers and aid with applications, diagnostics, competitive interchanges, and troubleshooting, utilizing the Customer Complaint Registration System (CCRS) database to track and manage customer interactions. 
• Communicate customer demand, technical inquiry, and competitor product trends to department members and division management. Propose product modifications & line extensions and lead design improvement initiatives based on spanet trends 
• Provide support on configurator programs, engineering drawing reviews and ERP System bill of material maintenance
• Support and assist with non-standard quote requests for special products
• Support and participate in all Lean activities to improve operational efficiency and customer satisfaction, contributing to cross-functional or project team responsibilities as needed.
• Maintenance of E-tool databases.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree (BS) (or Professional Engineer (PE) certificate) in an engineering or science technical discipline. Professional entry level position. May have limited prior industry experience or have worked with direction in student internship programs.
• Fundamental knowledge of engineering domain principles, concepts, and techniques.
• General knowledge of industry products, customers, and related legal/regulatory requirements.
• Fundamental knowledge of and use of basic engineering design and analysis tools (e.g. computer-aided design programs). Learns and utilizes specialized engineering databases; may require programming skills.
• Develops familiarity with products and customer specifications and standards applicable to assigned product line or system.
• Ability to communicate status of technical tasks and actions taken with clarity and precision.
• Ability to work with general direction and instruction regarding the scope of assignments; determines the priority and order of assignments; and applies judgment in selecting procedures and techniques.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret technical journals and reports. Ability to present findings and information in both formal meetings and informally within and across Parker teams.

Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin is a Fortune 250 global leader in motion and control technologies and systems. For more than a century the company has been enabling engineering breakthroughs that lead to a better tomorrow. Learn more at www.parker.com or parkerhannifin.

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